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Caerphilly does it: Can cheese cause nightmares?
This is one urban myth that鈥檚 surprisingly hard to debunk. But we have begun to shine a light into the dark places where cheese and dreams meet
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Why bird droppings are the enemy of electricity
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Tipping point: The trouble with fatuous gratuities
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What snowy owls get up to when the mercury drops
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Space
Stargazing through the bottom of a glass
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Finding brewtopia: Lager made the New Scientist way
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Born to dance: The animals with natural rhythm
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Earth
Racing refraction: Who reached the North Pole first?
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Technology
Rhyme and reason: Writing poems in computer code
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Life
The real Oompa-Loompas: Microbes that make chocolate
Fungi, bacteria and yeasts are the unsung heroes of chocolate production. Managing these little helpers better could keep the future for chocoholics sweet
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The piste at the end of the universe
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Life
Is the answer to life, the universe and everything 37?
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Reverb: Why we dig messy sound
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Spider Santa: Nicer gift-wrap, better sex
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